Editing Frost Faeries (section)

== Powers and Abilities ==
Some if not all of the powers mentioned below are probably just a subset of a more general underlying power: Faerie magic affects the perceptions of reality to a point that would seem like they are altering it - for example, they can make great distances closer than they should be, and change the way people speak. To spice up drama, they may for example force mortals to speak in rhymes. They are only very rarely willing to use these abilities on the behest of mortals, however, but often to their own amusement.<ref name="2.45" /> When they discard their appearance, so too do they lose their powers as Frost Faeries in exchange for the powers of their true forms.<ref name=":0" />

They can make a small sanctuary, where the air becomes warm, snow melts, and grass and flowers grow and flourish.<ref name="2.35">[https://wanderinginn.com/2017/06/11/2-29/ Chapter 2.35]</ref>

They can also move across paths beyond worlds.

When they want to get physical with mortals, they can bite off fingers.<ref name="3.04" />

=== Flight ===
[[File:M9Cold by Brack.jpg|thumb|By [[Fanworks/Brack|Brack]]]]
Faeries are able to fly thanks to some natural affinity to wind magic - or thanks to their space-bending abilities. Their flight speed cannot be matched by mortals, and they regard even high-level [Couriers] as stupidly slow.

=== Frost Powers ===
The most obvious use of Faerie power is their ability to conjure snow, ice and avalanches out of thin air. They are also capable of dropping the temperature and freezing anything that touches them.<ref name="2.28" />

=== Glamour ===
They are regularly obscured by a glamor so that most mortals can neither hear them nor see their true forms. This appears to be a natural property of them. When inside of buildings built with iron, they become visible, which is another reason for them to avoid those structures.

Other ways to perceive the Frost Faeries are standing in the right place under the full moon, or to ingest a "secret drink", made out of many rare or disgusting ingredients, like certain bugshells ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmine E120]) and possibly parts of incense or processed fruit acids ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_benzoate E211]).<ref name="3.04" /> Humans [[Earthworlders|from Earth]] usually have eaten either the exact mixture, or just the right amount of those ingredients separately, which is why they are awakened to the activities of Frost Faeries.
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** The eyes of Gods and cats. (the word combination of "gods and cats" is nowhere in the novels)
** Great masters of magic.
** If they are struck. (Chapter 2.18 doesn't mention that they were seen after Ryoka punched one)
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